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5. Sedentary Behaviour in Swiss Children and Adolescents: Disentangling Associations with the Perceived and Objectively Measured Environment

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Bringolf-Isler, Bettina, de Hoogh, Kees, Schindler, Christian, Kayser, Bengt, Suggs, L. Suzanne, Dössegger, Alain, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Sophya Study Group, and SOPHYA Study Group

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Male, Cross-sectional study, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Health Behavior, lcsh:Medicine, Child Behavior, Toxicology, 0302 clinical medicine, Residence Characteristics, Surveys and Questionnaires, sedentary behaviour, accelerometer, home environment, perceived environment, GIS, objective environment, children, adolescents, neighbourhood, social environment, urbanicity, walkability, public health, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Neighbourhood (mathematics), education.field_of_study, SOPHYA Study Group, Walkability, Social ecological model, Female, Psychology, Switzerland, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Population, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Environmental health, MD Multidisciplinary, medicine, Humans, education, Recreation, Exercise, Public health, lcsh:R, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social environment, Health Surveys, Cross-Sectional Studies, Environment Design, Sedentary Behavior, Child Behavior/psychology, Environment Design/statistics & numerical data, Health Behavior/physiology, Residence Characteristics/statistics & numerical data, Switzerland/epidemiology
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Identifying correlates of sedentary behaviour across all levels of the ecological model and understanding their interrelations is a promising method to plan effective interventions. The present study examined whether the objectively assessed and the perceived neighbourhood are associated with children’s sedentary behaviour time (SBT). A comprehensive set of factors at different levels of influence across the ecological model were taken into account and analysed for mediating and modifying effects. Analyses were based on 1306 children and adolescents (6⁻16 years) participating in the population-based SOPHYA-study. Accelerometers were used to assess SBT, the perceived environment was examined by a validated parental questionnaire, and objective environmental data were allocated using GIS (ArcMap 10.2, Esri, Redlands, CA, USA) for each family’s residential address. A high perceived safety was associated with less SBT. Boys, those whose residential neighbourhood was characterized by dead ends in urban areas, a low main street density in the neighbourhood of children and greenness were less likely to exhibit SBT. The association of the objective environment with the respective parental perceptions was low and no significant mediating effect was found for the perceived environment. We conclude for land-use planning to reduce sedentary behaviour objective environments should be complemented with efforts to increase parental sense of security.

Published
2018

6. I did eat my vegetables. Agreement between parent and child food intake diaries.

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Rangelov, Natalie, Suggs, L Suzanne, and Marques-Vidal, Pedro

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*FOOD consumption, *BEHAVIORISM (Psychology), *RANK correlation (Statistics), *DATA analysis, SEX differences (Biology)
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ObjectiveTo assess the level of agreement between children and their parents when reporting a child’s food consumption.DesignCross-sectional study in which children and parents independently completed 7 d food diaries describing the foods and drinks the child consumed at every meal and snack. The association between child and parent reporting was assessed for nineteen food groups using Kendall’s tau-b non-parametric correlations, Spearman’s rank correlations, kappa coefficients and Lin’s concordance measure of agreement. Results were also stratified by gender of the child and his/her grade at school.SettingHouseholds in Ticino, Switzerland, April–June 2014.SubjectsTwo hundred and ninety-nine children aged 6–12 years and one of their parents participated, with 264 providing complete data (35 % completion rate).ResultsResults showed a high level of agreement between child and parent reporting. Spearman correlations ranged from 0·55 (sauces) and 0·57 (fatty meat) to 0·80 (fruit), 0·83 (starchy foods) and 0·84 (pastries). All nineteen Spearman correlations were significant at the 0·001 level. Kendall’s tau-b correlations ranged from 0·44 (fat meat) to 0·81 (puff pastry). Kappa values showed low to high levels of agreement, ranging from 0·15 (sweets) to 0·77 (puff pastry). Lin’s concordance correlation coefficients ranged from 0·39 (whole grains) to 0·86 (puff pastry).ConclusionsWhen assessing the eating behaviour of children using a 7 d food diary, children’s reports might be as reliable as their parents’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016
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